ABSS increases starting pay for cafeteria workers to $14 an hour
Alamance-Burlington school board members voted unanimously, 7-0, Wednesday to increase the starting pay for cafeteria workers to $14 an hour, from the current starting...
School board approves $1.8M in contracts for SROs
Alamance-Burlington school board members voted 7-0 Wednesday to approve $1.8 million in annual contracts for school resource officers – absent any of the controversy...
Mon. night school board meeting erupts in chaos
Public comments controversy over SHS yearbook, debate about Critical Race Theory preface to school board member Patsy Simpson storming out of meeting which was...
School system to sell off land near old, segregation-era school
Alamance County’s commissioners have cleared the way for the local school system to sell off two acres of land near the site of a...
School board member Patsy Simpson won’t seek re-election in 2024; says she’s not sure...
Patsy Simpson, who was just elected to her fourth term on the Alamance-Burlington school board in 2020, told The Alamance News this week that...
Doi chosen as ABSS teacher of the year
Hawfields Middle School teacher Christopher Doi has been selected as the Alamance-Burlington school system’s 2021 teacher of the year. He teaches 6th grade English...
Work begins at new ABSS high school site
Voters who approved $150 million for the local school system in a bond referendum in November 2018 may have wondered when they would start...
Why can’t parents attend school board meetings in person?
QUESTION: Why can’t parents of Alamance-Burlington students attend school board meetings in person? Why can we not ask question of the board face-to-face and...
Commissioners hesitate to give schools permission to tap their own reserves for maintenance projects
Alamance County’s commissioners have declined for the time being to allow the local school system to draw more than $9.6 million from its own...
School system reduces its expectations for county cash as pandemic relief pours in
The annual budget requests from the Alamance-Burlington school system and Alamance Community College are always a learning experience for the county’s board of commissioners....
